Lead Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

Join Appian as a Lead Software Engineer in our Foundational Infrastructure Group to help re-architect the platform on public clouds and ensure high availability, responsiveness, and diversity of infrastructure to meet the needs of a dynamic development team.

Requirements

• Expertise in working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures like Azure or Google Cloud, and using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Expertise working in Kubernetes ecosystem (e.g. Cilium, Istio, Knative, Keda)
• Experience coaching junior engineers and driving projects to impact
• Fluency in reviewing architecture / designs from team members, identify problems, and make suggestions for better practices
• Familiarity with conducting code reviews looking out for the elegant approach, performance, maintainability, and security
• Familiarity with DevOps, Release Engineering and trends including CI/CD
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
• Familiarity with networking and information security in the cloud (e.g. VPN, compliance, etc.)
• Focus on keeping automated infrastructure up-to-date as dependent technologies evolve and scale
• Interest in automating every aspect of our development lifecycle and help us in our mission to achieve continuous delivery
• Excellent spoken and written communication with both technical and non-technical people
• Ability to identify dependencies between multiple teams. Ability to communicate blockers and escalate as needed
• Familiarity with leading response for severe issues, minimizing pain for the customer, weighing trade-offs in the moment; communicating clearly and concisely to the customer about the problem and solution

Benefits

• Leveraging cutting edge technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Gitlab, Prometheus, etc. to design and build new infrastructure features
• Valuing innovation and investment in our people by providing opportunities for growth and leadership
• A large engineering team where you are made to feel autonomous by our engineering business group model
• Basic Qualifications: At least 7 years experience designing, building and architecting software in an enterprise software or Saas/Paas environment
• Fluency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Golang, or Java
• At least 5 years of experience working in Kubernetes ecosystem
• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience